Friday, March 29, 2024

Readers' Letters

Church plaque must be corrected

As an Anglican and a Maori, I am disappointed in the Anglican Church of Howick as I have spoken to at least three vicars over the years about the brass memorial plaque in the...

Illegal dumping at Musick Point

On a recent walk up to Musick Point, we came across a pile of rubbish dumped on the side of the road, a truck load by the volume. Tried reporting it to Auckland Council...

A stain on our humanity

The ongoing destruction and death in Gaza, the daily raids including damaging infrastructure and violent encroaching of settlements in the West Bank, while the world watches in silence, our peace agencies powerless, is a...

Parents determine their child’s beliefs

, the problem with RSE and pronoun policies are that they teach ideology as fact: that biological sex is assigned/changeable; that disagreement is hateful/transphobic; that gender distress requires affirmation (social transition, blockers, hormones,...

When is a stop sign not a stop sign?

Part of my duties while assisting at the Auckland Brit & Euro Classic Car Show was to stand at the Cascades Road exit from Lloyd Elsmore Park. There is a compulsory stop sign there which...

What goes around…

Auckland Transport lashes out at KiwiRail for trains cancelled by overheated tracks, and Mayor Wayne Brown raged at Auckland Transport for losing the plot with $500,000 raised crossings. Isn’t there a bit of hypocrisy here...

Plane and simple

The All Blacks have an astounding entourage of 21 people. Is it possible, with numbers of that magnitude, they could come to an arrangement with the Prime Minister and go 50:50 in sharing the cost...

Where is Britomart?

Auckland Transport has started renaming Britomart station Waitemata. Nowhere on signage, maps or timetables does it indicate where Britomart/Waitemata actually is. Countless times, I have had to help tourists with identifying where the Auckland City...

Removal of Cockle Bay bus stop

I am dismayed to see that the bus stop outside 74 Cockle Bay road has been removed by, I can only assume, Auckland Transport. This stop has a dedicated shoulder for the bus to pull...

Council Litter Bins

We have a City Council responsible for collecting our trash At least we thought so, but a recent decision appears rash We currently have litter bins in recreational places for scraps Where folk out for a walk...

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